Monday, September 7, 2009
Thanks to the efforts of the SRFI authors, the R6RS SRFI library team, and Aaron, Chez has the portable R6RS SRFI libraries up and running on it. A single R6RS code-base used among all of the different R6RS implementations means substantial code-reuse, and all of the benefits that it brings. (via comp.lang.scheme)
A R6RS conformant Chez Scheme 7.4D and TSPL4 now available. Surprised?! I was. I hadn’t heard anything either. Anywhere. From anyone. Yesterday though, I saw Aaron (dedicated Chez user) posting about R6RS ports here and Eduardo mentioned TSPL4′s availability here here. Addendum: 08/04/09 The TSPL4 link is broken, but was not at the time of [...]
An R6RS library and a Chez top-level module have similarities: they both have bodies that contain variable and syntax definitions, some of which can be exported, and you can import one module into another. So, they’re similar on the surface. But there are major differences. 1. Outer scope Chez modules exist in some environment (typically, [...]